Helfert’s Theory of a Music Museum (“Musical Archive”) Miloš Zapletal The article is devoted to one of the first modern conceptions of a music museum within the framework of Czech or Czechoslovak ideas on musical museology. This conception originated with the musicologist Vladimír Helfert. The article follows the development of Helfert’s conception, which was realised…
The Innovations of Václav František Červený (1819–1896) and the Austrian-Czech Tradition of Making Chromatic Brass Instruments Tomáš Slavický Václav František Červený became the founder of the Austro-Czech tradition of manufacturing chromatic brass instruments, which represented in their day an alternative to Adolph Sax’s system. Červený’s innovations were realised successively from the 1840s through the ’80s. Many of these instruments…
Two Newly Obtained Letters by Bedřich Smetana Olga Mojžíšová In 2017 and 2018, the Smetana Museum added two of Bedřich Smetana’s letters to its collections. The letter written on 18 April 1859 in Dresden, the day before the death of the composer’s first wife Kateřina, was addressed to the piano virtuoso Alexander Dreyschock, and it is a major addition to…
Antonín Dvořák in the Notes of the Traveller Josef Kořenský and Czech Society in America in 1893 Veronika Vejvodová The article is based primarily on Josef Kořenský’s travelogue and diary, and in broader historical contexts it reports on Kořenský’s contacts with Antonín Dvořák in Prague in the 1870s and ’80s and in New York, where the two men met in late May and early June of 1893. There is a detailed description…
The earliest recordings of the works of Antonín Dvořák on standard gramophone records in the collection of the Antonín Dvořák Museum Petr Kudláček The article deals with a selection of standard gramophone records from the holdings of the National Museum – Antonín Dvořák Museum. The criteria for the selection were the age of the recordings, the material used for making the discs (shellac), and the recording method mechanical). Analysis of…
